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Pseudozygopleura pulchra

Gastropoda - Pseudozygopleuridae

Taxonomy
Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) pulchra was named by Knight (1930) [Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) pulchra Knight 1930]. Its type specimen is YPM 12964, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is SL-1. Headwaters of Feefee Creek, north of Olive St. & west of Lindberg Blvd., 1.5 km northwest of Stratmann (Olivette), which is in a Moscovian offshore shale in the Appanoose Formation of Missouri.

It was recombined as Pseudozygopleura pulchra by Wagner (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1930Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) pulchra Knight p. 42–43 figs. pl. 2 f. 4
1985Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) pulchra Hoare and Sturgeon p. 72 figs. f. 3n-o; table 2
2023Pseudozygopleura pulchra Wagner p. 5312

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
superfamilyZygopleuroidea
familyPseudozygopleuridae()
genusPseudozygopleura
speciespulchra()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Pseudozygopleura pulchra Knight 1930
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Diagnosis
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